Example sentences of "[verb] from [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Ideas of comparison and ordering come from playing with the many toys with graded components , e.g. Russian nesting dolls , pyramid rings , stacking cubes and boxes .
2 Beneath the shaft , there 's evidence of pollutants coming into contact underground streams , and cavers have now been forbidden from potholing near the area .
3 Beneath the shaft , there 's evidence of pollutants coming into contact underground streams , and cavers have now been forbidden from potholing near the area .
4 Beneath the shaft , there 's evidence of pollutants coming into contact underground streams , and cavers have now been forbidden from potholing near the area .
5 Beneath the shaft , there 's evidence of pollutants coming into contact underground streams , and cavers have now been forbidden from potholing near the area .
6 But she rose and walked over to the table , moving stiffly because of muscles chilled from sitting in the stone window embrasure for so long .
7 Besides which , on our visit we were rather discouraged from bathing by the sight of a dead lamb lying innocently at the bottom of the pool .
8 wean their foals abruptly and completely ( generally a foal is gradually discouraged from suckling as the next one is on the way , but wo n't leave its mother until it is two or three ) ;
9 The teacher is persuaded into conformity , submits to authority and is effectively discouraged from engaging in the process of pragmatic mediation which , I argue , defines the very profession of pedagogy .
10 While many British evacuees drifted back to the cities once the threat of an invasion had been lifted , refugee children were actively discouraged from returning to the urban life .
11 The idea that learners should be discouraged from attending to the formal properties of language is comparable to the idea , prevalent in a previous era , that learners should be denied all access to translation .
12 It was considered too onerous for a man to serve both as coroner and verderer , and verderers were often excused from serving in the former office .
13 At last , after about twenty minutes ' wandering , her feet soaking wet inside her leaking boots , and her leg muscles aching from wading through the snow , she arrived at the car park outside the administration block , and found her car .
14 The strategies behind the claims were procedural : Egypt wanted United Nations Charter , Article 27 ( 3 ) to be applied , to prevent those States that had protested from voting on the matter before the Security Council , while the United Kingdom wished to preserve the bilateral nature of the dispute and its own procedural rights .
15 We emphasise that the service is managed by Motor Engineers and Assessors independent of the Insurance Company and no reports of these Safety Checks will be referred to your Insurance Company , so please do not refrain from availing of the service because of unfounded fears in this regard .
16 Perhaps I should refrain from responding to the hon. Gentleman and continue with my speech .
17 The backlog of homeowners prevented from moving by the recession in the housing market has increased , according to a survey today .
18 But on his recent visit to the Mission base he was prevented from meeting with the newly contacted group .
19 A man and woman who do not want to have a baby can still enjoy lovemaking if they make sure the egg and sperm never meet , or if the egg is prevented from settling in the womb .
20 Hau 's appointment was due to be confirmed by the National Assembly on May 25 , but he was prevented from speaking to the chamber by protesting opposition legislators .
21 The above mentioned insiders , that is , individuals connected with a company , individuals contemplating making a take-over , and tippee traders , are not only prevented from dealing in the relevant securities , but are also subject to two further constraints : first , counselling or procuring any other person to deal ; and secondly , communicating inside information to any other person .
22 She complained of being prevented from helping in the house — ‘ You 'll tire yourself out ’ — or from going out in cold weather , and above all , of not being taken seriously .
23 The individual is prevented from commenting on the inconsistencies in that if he attempts to do so , he is met by condemnation that increases the confusing bind ( Bateson et al. , 1956 ) .
24 Equally flawed is the idea that it is possible to legitimate the power of corporate managers by structuring the internal division of power in the company so that the managers are prevented from deviating from the narrow path of profit-maximization .
25 In contradistinction to the indolent paupers who sponged off the Poor Rate and exploited pay make-up , and the hard-working landless town dweller who also suffered , he further cited the most respectable portion of the peasantry who were prevented from rising above the nominal low price of hire , so that the wage level ‘ must soon fall too low to allow the most abstemious worker to maintain himself .
26 Word got out on that , and they were prevented from getting onto the market .
27 As the blood tries to flow backwards , the pockets fill up , closing the valves so that blood is prevented from flowing in the wrong direction .
28 It will no doubt investigate what was the substantial cause of the employee 's failure to comply with the statutory time limit ; whether he had been physically prevented from complying with the limitation period , for instance by illness or a postal strike , or something similar .
29 Until at last there was only one Callanish eagle left , a juvenile whom the others had sought to protect and so had prevented from joining in the fighting even though she had wanted to .
30 PAMELA overhears some of the ensuing scene but is prevented from interrupting by the CARDINAL and the FOX ]
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